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Fire Drill Friday with Jane Fonda and Ben Jealous | Big Money In Politics | Greenpeace USA



Big money in politics, especially fossil fuel money, is bad for democracy and bad for the future. It undermines our fight towards climate justice by incentivizing politicians to do the fossil fuel industry’s bidding, rather than listen to their constituents. This, combined with government subsidies for oil and gas companies, continue to allow the fossil fuel industry to have a stronghold on the health and safety of our communities.

Today, we’re joined by Ben Jealous of People For the American Way @PFAWdotorg to discuss the grassroots efforts to get big money out of politics and where the Biden administration could make a difference.

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About the guest:
Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation. Jealous has decades of experience as a leader, coalition builder, campaigner for social justice and seasoned nonprofit executive. In 2008, he was chosen as the youngest-ever president and CEO of the NAACP where he grew the organization’s online activist base by hundreds of thousands and positioned the organization at the forefront of critical social justice issues such as the Trayvon Martin case, the fight against voter ID laws and voter suppression. Ben was also the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Maryland, a Rhodes Scholar, and is a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania.

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